Gizmo on the neutral wire

Factual Questions
1

I was standing this morning at the bus station which is located under a big three-phase set of high voltage lines. On the neutral wire, right by the tower, is a little thing hanging on the wire. Like a small snippet of stiff wire attached at its center point.

The thing is a stiff piece of wire perhaps 10-inches long (hard to tell at this distance), and has tear-drop shaped ends. It is attached at it’s centerpoint to the neutral wire, parallel to the wire itself.



Like this:

----------------------------
      o------|-------o

Any idea what it is?

2

a) It’s not hanging on the neutral wire, it’s hanging on the earth wire, which it there for lightning protection purposes.
b) It’s a vibration damper, put there to damp oscillations caused by wind.